Monday, March 1, 2010

Universal Forms

(And back from the "Dance," as reconnection into the "real").

“There is probably not a single culture in the world that fails to constitute heterotopias. That is a constant of every human group. But the heterotopias obviously take quite varied forms, and perhaps no one absolutely universal form of heterotopia would be found."

* Do they exist? Do Universal Heterotopias actually exist, and furthermore are there really heterotopias available in every culture? Probably gives the connotation of possibility in either direction; by saying that there are probably heterotopias everywhere, gives rise to the possibility that there are a few that don't have any. Though, where they might be found, I have no idea, perhaps in normadic tribes of daoists, living in the moment and living their lives, not thinking about the future or the past? Could there be sub-heterotopias? As in not the deviant or the distress but the natural- like language. Granted language could never constitute a physical place, but wouldn't that make it a perfect example of a sub-heterotopia, a place beyond place, a place that can take you places or bring you ideas and the possibilities of furthering the "actual" heterotopias, to open the cabinet and pull back the heterotopiatic mirror that displays society in its very foundations? Perhaps grants the same connotation as probably, giving room for chance. If such sub-heterotopias were to exist, such as language, could that not be a universal heterotopia, as the same could be said for emotion? Emotion is universal, people feel the same pain, sorrow, sadness, happiness, desire, and anger as everyone else, so then wouldn't this heterotopia (shall we say the heterotopia of the heart), or sub-heterotopia as it were, universal? It grants outstanding possibility: insight into the past of human society, insight into the present, and insight into the future- emotions are the one constant. How did I get here?

** The codes of illogical and transcendatory (own creation, uniqueness) thought. Code of action and possibility that grants insight throughout the passage.

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